Ted, thanks. I did as you suggested and it worked when I opened IE from the IE shortcut. However, when I opened File Hippo to check for updates IE opened in Metro mode, and I had to select "open in desktop" from the option at the bottom of the screen. Do you have any other ideas as to how to sort this out?"

If you did both of the things shown in my screen shot, Always in IE on the desktop from the drop down box, and check the box for Open IE tiles on the Desktop, it should always open the desktop version of IE.